Found my pride and joy about 3/4 mile away in a field where the cows graze. The cows had a field day with my plane. They stomped every square inch of the plane, leaving me with nothing, absolutely nothing salvageable. I figure around $500.

In fact not only did the stomp the plane, but buried some parts. We found servo leads, only to pull on them to unearth the servos. The motor was found 20 foot from the wreck. Destroyed.

I looked straight at the cows and let em know that I was gonna have a big juicy steak for dinner and hamburger for lunch tomorrow...

FML

Michael

I'll have a burger in memory of your plane tonight. Sorry for you loss. Won't happen in California, though, all happy cows.....

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Watch the "Hooking it up" video at the first post of this thread. It is video #7. You will see no cables are required, just some soldering skills.

-Alex

Somehow I missed that one before, thanks again. Pretty simple.

Alex, is there a reason you recommend 900mhz over 1.3ghz? As a reminder I am looking for 1500 feet probably at the most, but likely behind trees and small buildings mostly doing low nap of the earth flying, on a quadcopter with about 8 inches of separation between TX and RX..

I know 900mhz will penetrate a bit better, but 1.3ghz misses the cell phone bands. I live in a rural residential town, but am about 10-15 miles from an urban center. We have mostly CDMA and 4G cell towers around here, but I am sure there is 900mhz as well.

900mhz was what I was originally thinking, but I keep reading that 1.3ghz has the cleanest air in the USA. What do you think?

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So, crappy question to have to ask but - what is yall's success rate with having people return lost planes? I have my address name and phone number on the plane in 2 or 3 spots, along with a "reward upon return" on the label.

Well first of all the chances of you crashing it on the ground where someone would run upon it is very slim. Even smack in the middle of the city where I live there are plenty of trees and wooded areas.

Alex, is there a reason you recommend 900mhz over 1.3ghz? As a reminder I am looking for 1500 feet probably at the most, but likely behind trees and small buildings mostly doing low nap of the earth flying, on a quadcopter with about 8 inches of separation between TX and RX..

I know 900mhz will penetrate a bit better, but 1.3ghz misses the cell phone bands. I live in a rural residential town, but am about 10-15 miles from an urban center. We have mostly CDMA and 4G cell towers around here, but I am sure there is 900mhz as well.

900mhz was what I was originally thinking, but I keep reading that 1.3ghz has the cleanest air in the USA. What do you think?

2.4Ghz control and 1.3GHz video are not friends. 900MHz video is the safer bet, especially for the short distances you intend to fly.

Alex, is there a reason you recommend 900mhz over 1.3ghz? As a reminder I am looking for 1500 feet probably at the most, but likely behind trees and small buildings mostly doing low nap of the earth flying, on a quadcopter with about 8 inches of separation between TX and RX..

I know 900mhz will penetrate a bit better, but 1.3ghz misses the cell phone bands. I live in a rural residential town, but am about 10-15 miles from an urban center. We have mostly CDMA and 4G cell towers around here, but I am sure there is 900mhz as well.

900mhz was what I was originally thinking, but I keep reading that 1.3ghz has the cleanest air in the USA. What do you think?

If you live in the US, there is no 900mhz cellular use. It's 700-900, then 1400 on up.

Reciver Antenna

Alex

Hey I know you have used the corona RP8D1 receiver and I going to try one being I just getting into FPV then move into a Dragonlink later.My Question is can I run the Antenna along the outside bottom of my Penguin airframe as long as I keep it as strait as possible? I seen your video on how you keep it on the wing but I will be removing the wings and it would be easer to run the Antenna down the back bone of the Penguin. Or should I go ahead and pull the trigger and get a Dragonlink and skip the 72mh I will be using a 9 Cap if that matters. Thanks Scott K

Hey I know you have used the corona RP8D1 receiver and I going to try one being I just getting into FPV then move into a Dragonlink later.My Question is can I run the Antenna along the outside bottom of my Penguin airframe as long as I keep it as strait as possible? I seen your video on how you keep it on the wing but I will be removing the wings and it would be easer to run the Antenna down the back bone of the Penguin. Or should I go ahead and pull the trigger and get a Dragonlink and skip the 72mh I will be using a 9 Cap if that matters. Thanks Scott K

It's your call, but I would still run it out the wing. Maybe make it so only 1 wnig detaches? Remember that running it out the tail exposes the antenna null.

Reality Check: 2.4ghz Spektrum Booster

It's an inexpensive and fairly simple project that offers 4km range without a patch, and with a patch antenna presumably somewhat further.

Have you assembled this kit? How did it do? What range have you achieved? Glitchy? Loss of aircraft? Would you recommend it as an improvement to pilots who insist on using Spektrum 2.4ghz TX / RX pairs?

It's an inexpensive and fairly simple project that offers 4km range without a patch, and with a patch antenna presumably somewhat further.

Have you assembled this kit? How did it do? What range have you achieved? Glitchy? Loss of aircraft? Would you recommend it as an improvement to pilots who insist on using Spektrum 2.4ghz TX / RX pairs?

Thanks!

works great, i've done it to my dx8, been working fine for 18 months, flew out to 4km on it yesterday no problems. I'm not using a patch either.

The only thing you have to do is properly attenuate the link from the tx to the booster, otherwise you'll burnout the booster.